On 4/11/24 11:19 AM, home user wrote:
After a few days of being seriously side-tracked, I can try to get back
to this.
Those who explained the kernel numbering: thank-you.
> (f-38; stand-alone work station; nvidia graphics card; dual monitor;
> kmod 4xx driver)
>
> I just finished doing a "dnf upgrade" as a prerequisite step to
> upgrading from f-38 to f-39.
> There were no hints of any problems. The kernel and the graphics
> driver were replaced during this "dnf upgrade".
> The akmods did finish before I rebooted.
> The shutdown took 5 minutes because it ran akmods (a second time?!).
> During the boot-up, there was a message that it was failing back to
> nouveau.
> The display is not working properly; only one monitor is being used
> and everything is oversized in the display.
> I am not comfortable proceeding with the f-38 to f-39 upgrade with the
> work station in this condition.
>
> Important: I have only one old kernel. I have no rescue kernel.
>
> How do I get this workstation working properly?
A. nvidia's proprietary drivers.
There's....
1.
(Thomas)
> I finally just nuked all the RPMFusion packages and downloaded the
> drivers directly from
https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx and
> ran the installer from there. It works fine again.
(Todd)
> I can tell you that building the 2 or 3 nvidia 470xx packages
> works well for the later 6.7 and current 6.8 kernels.
and there's....
2.
(John)
> AIUI we are moving from X11 graphics towards Wayland, which the nvidia
> driver will not support...
(Michael)
> So, not sure if this is a kernel issue, or the driver issue, but seems
> neither rpmfusiong or nvidia's driver will work any longer?
These seem to me to be inconsistent with each other. What am I missing?
B. nvidia and Fedora.
From posts in this thread, I gather that
1. nvidia users can no longer use Fedora, and
2. Fedora users can no longer use nvidia.
Is this correct?
I don't think your summaries are correct. But although technical fixes
may exist for the immediate problems the situation at rpmfusion looks
more difficult. See this Bugzilla and in particular Comment 5.